Selected Fiction, Biography and Memoir Books

Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness

by Lisa Appignanesi

This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad?Brighton, 1870: A well-respected... (more)

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment... (more)

The Years

by Virginia Woolf

'A brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion' The Times Literary Supplement.

The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their... (more)

The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York Times.

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from... (more)

To the Lighthouse

by Virgina Woolf

'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble.

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys,... (more)

Orlando:

by Virginia Woolf

'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement.

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman,... (more)